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Monte Piano Trio at Conway Hall

8 October 2017

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The Monte Piano Trio return to Conway Hall with a programme of trios by Beethoven, Dvorak and Amy Beach, one of America's most important female composers. Beethoven | Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3 Amy Beach | Trio Op. 150 Dvorak | Trio No. 3 in F minor Op. 65 The musicians of Monte Piano Trio have performed in major concert halls such as Berliner Philharmonie, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Covent Garden in London, Daning Theater in Shanghai and the Romanian Atheneum. They have been broadcast on TV and Radio on BBC, WDR, CBS, DLF, SWR, TVR and Radio Clasica. They were invited to play at renowned festivals including Schleswig-Holstein, Osnabruck, Mozartfest Wurzburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommen, Heidelberger Fruhling, Stift and Constella Festival. They have played in Germany, USA, UK, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Austria, Romania, Turkey, Holland and Brazil. In 2015, the trio released "From a Tender Age", a CD in partnership with Genuin Classics, which received many accolades and was chosen as CD of the Month on Stereo Magazine. Their next CD on Genuin Label is due for release in 2016. They have had the privilege of performing as Monte+ the premiere of the newly discovered first piano quintet by George Enescu in June 2015 at the Enescu Museum in Bucharest. The trio is featured on the sound track of "Maestro", a documentary film which explores the life of musicians through the eyes of Paavo Jarvi. Since 2012 they are founders and artistic directors of the annual Kammermusikfest Sylt in Germany. The Trio was founded in 2008 at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt am Main. They won first prizes at the Mirabent Competition in Spain and at the European Karlsruhe Competition in Germany. They are also prize winners at several international competitions including Schumann (Germany), Maria Canals (Spain), Brahms (Austria) and Almere (Holland). They have received a Diploma with Honors from the Musikhochschule in Essen and then continued their studies at "Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia" in Madrid where they graduated with the highest honors. The Trio has received artistic guidance from distinguished musicians including Menahem Pressler, Gunter Pichler, Ralf Gothoni, Dirk Mommertz, Ferenc Rados and Eberhard Feltz. Pre-concert talk by Roderick Swanston at 5.30pm in the Brockway Room Conway Hall favourite Roderick Swanston introduces the evening's programme, focusing on American composer Amy Beach's Piano Trio.

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